Yeah - DVerb was definitely a Digi plugin. There are certainly plugins that Digi made that predated ChannelStrip and that are still supported.

Hey, I know that one might be a cheat in that it has usually been supported by only one platform, (but I swear I used it in Opcode software.... but hmmm)...

but congratulations to Metric Halo for not only making it this long in a tough business, but probably the nearest thing to a non-proprietary 3rd party that is still supported on different systems to this day... and actually might be the correct answer here, as I'm a little fuzzy on dverb on non-PT software... (despite the software riding the PT hardware)... but I think I remember... lol,.... that and using Lexicon and some GRM perhaps early back then (as I HATED using PT, as it's midi sucked, and Studio Vision was great for that...)

Thanks!

Opcode had that TDM thing where you could use the Digi engine on Digi hardware with their front end. I think that's what you remembering - Studio Vision Pro. But it was still a Digi plugin. Actually, I think before PowerPC and VST, that TDM was really the only platform that supported plugins at all, because the computers really didn't have the processing power to do the real-time audio.

? I never said anything about still supported; yes, it counts

Right, but everyone else is talking about "still supported" as the thread has evolved the way I remember reading it..

If you want to talk about the oldest thing still running, that's an easy museum piece...

more interesting is what is still supported and for how long...

But Recycle was an awesome piece of software that made life so so much easier back then absolutely...

Yup! The DAE engine!

It actually was a pretty good thing... as obviously cpu's weren't up to much real time processing unless had Digi hardware strapped in etc prior to vst and whatnot....

Prior to TDM, they had plugins like DiNR, and whatnot.. but very limited... PTIII hardware (I think initially on nubus), really kinda opened it up for realtime processing...

Granted it depended on how many cards you had and whatnot, and it was cool you could later strap it to your SampleCell cards and whatnot... but it was the beginning of what we are all dealing with now on a "commercial level" for the most part... I remember companies like DUY and yourselves being there earlier then most of the rest... !

I wouldn't say everybody is, but irrelevant regardless...I thought the topic was pretty clear in the title.

To you perhaps; not me

Well it's a pretty short boring story if the "longest plug-in you have been using" or in use came out in 2017 lol.

Hell, I'm not even sure if I have bought one since then that wasn't just an upgrade or partner product for the most part ....

So I understood that part correctly and you complain about this? Well, about what? It was in the title and I just used my own words. What's the problem?

I think it is more reasonable to assume you meant the oldest and latest version one is still able to use. I now know you didn't, but such assumptions aren't erroneous necessarily.

Oldest original release date (that could have been updated last week)? How do you expect everyone to keep track of that in their daily life? For example younger producers might not know this or even care about it.

Recycle is a plug-in?

We've already established it isn't clear. It's rather clearly ambiguous.

If that counts, then I'm pretty sure that Waves Puigchild Compressor is the "oldest" plug-in I use. The Fairchild 660 and 670 were introduced in 1959, I believe. Both are now available as new hardware. Does that mean that hardware is old as the design is from the fifties? Or is it new? I can't do these things.

No, you've "established" (claimed) it. I've made quite clear and most of the people replying get it...your inability to do so or desire to take something so simple and make it ridiculously isn't my problem and I'm not wasting time addressing this/you anymore.

I don't care. You seem to have a problem with simple logic. People's answers are all over the place and the reason is how you worded the question. You're also in a recent reply overloading "plugin" to also mean "music software" in general.

Just to be clear, that's all fine. I still have great respect for you and appreciate your posts. It's not my fault language sometimes is possible to interpret in multiple ways and it's not your fault either. All we can do is learn.

Well, it doesnt get much older than that.